Sarah Cortez, a law-enforcement officer, is the author of the poetry collection How to Undress a Cop. Winner of the 1999 PEN Texas Literary award in poetry, she has edited or coedited Urban-Speak: Poetry of the City, Windows into My World: Latino Youth Write Their Lives, and Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery.

Sergio Troncoso is a graduate of both Harvard College and Yale University and the author of"The Last Tortilla and Other Stories" and "The Nature of Truth: A Novel", the former also published by the University of Arizona Press.